Thank you for your answers. Ok Volker, i am going to the archive ;-) Cheers,
-- Jacques Site web <https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/> Le 27/12/2010 18:27, Dale a gentiment tapote: > Jacques Montier wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am waiting for a new PC... >> motherboard Asus P6X58D-E >> Intel Core i7 950 >> 4Go DDR >> Gforce GT240 >> >> I use Gentoo for nearly 8 years, and of course, it will be Gentoo on >> that new pc. >> Besides desktop working, i am going to study and produce some image and >> video synthesis. >> I have some questions : >> 32 bits or 64 bits ? advantages and inconvenients ? >> What CFLAGS have i to choose and what about kernel settings (Processor >> type and features) ? >> >> Thank you very much for your advices, >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Jacques >> Site web<https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/> >> >> > > I just built me a new rig so I just went through the same thing. This > is how I did mine. I booted a CD/DVD and used "lspci -k | grep > driver" to list the drivers in use. That helps a lot. With that, you > can use the search feature when doing the kernel config. > > I went with 64 bit and used a miltilib profile. So far, everything is > working fine. All my usual websites are working and everything. This > is my USE flags: > > USE="-a52 -acl acpi alsa -arts automount auto-hinter avahi -bluetooth > -branding bzip2 cddb cdr chroot cleartype clucene corefonts -crypt > cups curl dbus -doc dri -dts dvd dvdr -eds escreen esd exif fdftk > -fftw -gcj gif gimp gkrellm -gnome gnutls gphoto2 gtk hal hbci hddtemp > ipv6 -jabber -jingle java javascript jbig jpeg2k justify kde libwww > logrotate loop-aes mng mplayer mp3 mdnsresponder-compat -musepack > mysql nls nsplugin ofx offensive opengl -oss -otr parport pdf > policykit ppds ppp qt3 qt3support qt4 sasl seamonkey semantic-desktop > *smp* -sqlite -sqlite3 syslog tcl -theora *threads* tiff tk truetype > type1 udev usb -v41 webkit win32codecs wma wmf X aml yahoo -xulrunner > zeroconf *mmx sse sse2 3dnowext 3dnow*" > > I put the ones that I changed in bold for you. Don't copy and paste > that since the * may mess up portage. Since this list is supposed to > be text only, I had to make them bold with the *. > > Since you are using a nvidia card, read this too. > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118109 > > Basically, enable CONFIG_SYSVIPC in the kernel. The nvidia driver > won't load without that. I have the following built into my kernel: > > Symmetric multi-processing support > Enable MPS table > AMD IOMMU support > MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support > Preemption Model (Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)) > > There are others but I think that is all that is different. > > That get you started? > > Dale > > :-) :-) >